We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.
The reason that I like 'Game of Thrones' is because it's based on all these royal families. And it's cutthroat - just like hip-hop. It's all about positioning and figuring out who's going to last.
I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.
'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.
New Orleans just embraces people who love music.
I've always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.
When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.
All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.
The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.
To have Run-DMC acknowledge you, something like that, you're like, 'Oh, I'm that dude.' To have Jay-Z do a verse, you that dude. To have Jay-Z shout you out in an intro, you're that dude. Like, it doesn't get any greater than that. Nobody can take that from you.
'Bling Bling' was originally a Big Tymers song.
I think I have automobile skills and musical background.
I remember that my dad worked on cars from the '70s and '80s, and that's where my love came from: appreciating - even if it was a piece of crap - how much he loved American muscle.
I've always had good connections with cars and always knew how to fix them, so I didn't have trouble with breakdowns.
With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens - but do you keep it good?
I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.
Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one bounce song after another. I started to doing bounce songs for them, and they jumped off.
'Solja Rag' was designed for Juvenile. It wasn't one of them beats where I was gonna chop it and see who I was going give it to: it was Juvenile all over it.
B.G. was just like his lyrics.
A lot of artists are scared when they see trumpet players show up - they like, 'Nah, that ain't what I want.' I try to tell them, 'Dude, I'll give you trademark Mannie Fresh, but it's not about keyboards and a drum machine.'
